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53 Purpose of the survey

In general, different household types may need different incomes in order to attain the same level of material comfort. Since assessing such incomes in an objective way is difficult, we would like to ask you for your personal evaluation of these incomes for a number of different household types. Please note that in this questionnaire there are no “right” or “wrong” answers. So, your answers should only reflect your personal judgements.

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Instruction

You will frequently read the expression “monthly net household income.” Such a “monthly net household income” is the income amount a household has at its disposal after paying taxes and social security contributions (health insurance contributions, compulsory long term care insurance contributions, unemployment insurance contributions, and contributions to the pension system).

“Monthly net household income” encompasses: Salary and earnings,

Income from being self-employed, Pensions,

Unemployment benefits and social benefits, Accommodation allowance,

Child allowances,

Incomes from rent and lease, and

Other incomes such as returns on investment, interest, etc.

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PART

A

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Now, please think about a situation where a single, childless adult has a monthly net household income of 500 Euros.

In this survey, there are seven other household types: with 1 adult and 1 child

with 1 adult and 2 children with 1 adult and 3 children with 2 adults and no children with 2 adults and 1 child with 2 adults and 2 children with 2 adults and 3 children

Assume that adults are ages 35 to 55 and children are ages 7 to 11.

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Which monthly net household income would each of these seven household types need in order to attain the same level of material comfort as the single, childless, adult household with the monthly net household income of 500 Euros?

You should state this monthly net household income for each household type in the table that will follow on the next screen. Please note that your answers should reflect only your personal judgements.

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Which monthly net household income would each household type need in order to attain the same level of material comfort as the single, childless, adult household with the monthly net household income of 500 Euros?

Please state income amounts in Euros. 1 adult without children 500 Euros 1 adult, 1 child 1 adult, 2 children 1 adult, 3 children 2 adults, no children 2 adults, 1 child 2 adults, 2 children 2 adults, 3 children

[Technical note to the researcher. The reference income level provided in the table is randomly assigned to the respondents. If a respondent does not report an income amount for a household type, there is a reminder: “please fill in income amounts in all empty cells of the table.” If a respondent’s entries are not numbers, there is a reminder: “please state numbers only.” If a respondent states income amounts that are decreasing inversely with household size, a box opens: “Usually, larger household types also need higher incomes in order to attain a specific living standard. Please, make sure that you are not stating how much income should be added compared to a smaller household type, but how much the total net household income should be. Please make sure that the entries you made are indeed total net household incomes.” This box opens only once, and its intention is to reduce misunderstandings by respondents. However, if a respondent did not adjust the entries she/he made in the table, she/he was free to do so. Respondents click a button to go to the next screen.]

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PART

B

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We will show you several household types with a given monthly net household income. Please evaluate the material comfort that these monthly net household incomes bring to the different household types on a scale ranging from 1 to 100 points. The values of this scale have the following meaning:

Please complete the following table by evaluating the monthly net income of each household type on the scale of 1-100.

All values between 1 and 100 are permissible.

Level of

material comfort (in points) 1 adult, no children with 3,500 Euros

1 adult, 1 child with 3,900 Euros 1 adult, 2 children with 4,200 Euros 1 adult, 3 children with 4,550 Euros 2 adults, no children with 4,850 Euros 2 adults, 1 child with 5,250 Euros 2 adults, 2 children with 5,550 Euros 2 adults, 3 children with 5,850 Euros

[Technical note to the researcher. The numbers provided in this table are estimates of average equivalent incomes for five reference income levels from an independent study. The five reference incomes are the same as the reference income levels in Part A. So, altogether, five profiles of equivalent incomes (including a reference income for the single, childless, adult household) were evaluated by the survey sample, one profile per respondent. One out of these five equivalent-income profiles was randomly assigned to a respondent. If a respondent reports less than eight Likert scale values, there is a reminder: “please fill in all empty cells of the table.” If a respondent’s answers do not fall in the given range of the Likert scale (1-100), there is a reminder to “please state numbers between 1 and 100 only.”]

10 50 30

1 70 90 100

very bad bad sufficient good very good